The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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1353 Episodes

  1. 1223: Between You and You by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem

    Published: 10/23/2024

  2. 1222: Post- by Corey Van Landingham

    Published: 10/22/2024

  3. 1221: Home Movies: A Sort of Ode by Mary Jo Salter

    Published: 10/21/2024

  4. 1220: Taking Stock by Elaine Equi

    Published: 10/18/2024

  5. 1219: from "Elegy for the Times" by Adonis, translated by Robyn Creswell

    Published: 10/17/2024

  6. 1218: Vulture by Ted Kooser

    Published: 10/16/2024

  7. 1217: Abide by Jake Adam York

    Published: 10/15/2024

  8. 1216: oracle by Duriel E. Harris

    Published: 10/14/2024

  9. 1215: The Clearing by Jane Kenyon

    Published: 10/11/2024

  10. 1214: Grading Rubric by Antonio de Jesús López

    Published: 10/10/2024

  11. 1213: Pacific Power & Light by Michael Dickman

    Published: 10/9/2024

  12. 1212: Eureka! by Jessica Abughattas

    Published: 10/8/2024

  13. 1211: The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert

    Published: 10/7/2024

  14. 1210: Negro Hero (to Suggest Dorie Miller) by Gwendolyn Brooks

    Published: 10/4/2024

  15. 1209: Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

    Published: 10/3/2024

  16. 1208: Gravelly Run by A. R. Ammons

    Published: 10/2/2024

  17. 1207: from "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams

    Published: 10/1/2024

  18. 1206: Birches by Robert Frost

    Published: 9/30/2024

  19. 1205: Leaving by Madeleine Cravens

    Published: 9/27/2024

  20. 1204: The Joseph Cornell App by David Roderick

    Published: 9/26/2024

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Poet Major Jackson is your guide on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey – through poetry. In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world’s magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery. Join The Slowdown for a poem and a moment of reflection in one short episode, every weekday. Produced by APM Studios in partnership with The Poetry Foundation and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Make us a part of your routine as you drink coffee in the morning, as you take a walk in nature, or as you wind down to go to sleep in the evening. With host Major Jackson, we collectively take a moment to calm, to inspire, to learn, and to engage with the best emerging poets and established writers of our time and generations past, from Emily Dickinson to Danez Smith, from Amanda Gorman to Mary Oliver. Listen to our back catalog for episodes by our previous hosts, Tracy K. Smith and Ada Limón, as well as guest hosts Jenny Xie, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tina Chang, Nate Marshall, Shira Erlichiman, and Jason Schneiderman. Our hosts and production team select poems that move them, and we hope they move you, too.